Lapse
[læps]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; 'a lapse of three weeks between letters'.
(verb.) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards.
(verb.) end, at least for a long time; 'The correspondence lapsed'.
(verb.) let slip; 'He lapsed his membership'.
錄入:佩内洛普--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
(n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
(n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
(n.) A fall or apostasy.
(v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
(v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
(v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.
(v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
(v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
(v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
手打:玛吉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Flow, gliding, flowing, smooth course.[2]. Fall, decline, declension, falling off.[3]. Slip, fault, error, shortcoming.
v. n. [1]. Slip, glide, pass slowly.[2]. Fail in duty, commit a fault, fall from innocence.[3]. (Law.) Become void.
亨利錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Gliding, falling, flow, onflow, flux, progress, escheatment, devolution,reversion, elapsing
ANT:Stability, uprightness, stationariness, fixture, arrestation, stoppage,retention, inheritance, possession
阿诺德手打
解釋/意思:
v.i. to slip or glide: to pass by degrees: to fall from the faith or from virtue: to fail in duty: to pass to another proprietor &c. by the negligence of a patron to become void: to lose certain privileges by neglect of the necessary conditions.—n. a slipping or falling: a failing in duty: a fault.—adj. Lap′sable.—The lapsed the name applied in the early Christian Church to those who overcome by heathen persecution fell away from the faith.
編輯:丽诺尔
例句/造句/用法:
- But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since Mr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The air, the movement in the court, the lapse of time, or the combination of these things recovers him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- You needn't be so rude, it's only a 'lapse of lingy', as Mr. Davis says, retorted Amy, finishing Jo with her Latin. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The mere lapse of time by itself does nothing, either for or against natural selection. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- She lifted her heavy eyes and saw him lapse suddenly away, on a sudden, unknown tide, and the waves broke over her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie: you betook yourself slowly to pace the gallery. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I asked leave to-- He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The Greeks and Latins lapsed very easily again into republics, and so did the Aryans in India. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He spoke regretfully and lapsed for a moment into his weary condition. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But he soon lapsed again and took control much as before. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She had lapsed into an easy and dignified calm, far removed from the intensity of life in her words of solicitude for Clym's safety. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But at first their exclusiveness is merely to preserve soundness of doctrine and worship, warned by such lamentable lapses as those of King Solomon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And that thus the suit lapses and melts away? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But here was sleep, and peace, and perfect lapsing out. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Gerald was becoming dim again, lapsing out of him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Ursula, left alone, felt as if everything were lapsing out. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But she could not be herself, she DARED not come forth quite nakedly to his nakedness, abandoning all adjustment, lapsing in pure faith with him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- All the world was lapsing into a grey wish-wash of nothingness, she had no contact and no connection anywhere. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
編輯:苏珊娜